Science
Surveys show significant growth in British Internet use
By Mike Ingram, December 29, 1999
Several recent surveys indicate a significant growth of Internet access in Britain in the last 12 months. According to a Guardian/ICM poll published Monday December 20, more than one in three British ...
A scientific milestone
Scientists unravel genetic code for human chromosome 22
By Frank Gaglioti, December 20, 1999
The publication of the complete genetic code of the human chromosome 22 in the December 2 issue of the scientific journal Nature is an important scientific achievement, which has enormous potential fo...
More on Freudianism and Marxism
A reader responds to an exchange of letters between WSWS contributors Alan Whyte and Frank Brenner
December 10, 1999
To Frank Brenner and Alan Whyte,
A WSWS contributor responds to Intrepid Thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union and Frank Brenner replies
An exchange of letters on Freudianism and Marxism
A WSWS contributor responds to Intrepid Thought: psychoanalysis in the Soviet Union and Frank Brenner replies
November 30, 1999
We are publishing the following exchange of letters on Freudianism and Marxism for the information of our readers. The first letter is the response of a WSWS contributing writer, Allen Whyte, to Intre...
Global warming and capitalism
The Heat is On by Ross Gelbspan
By Joseph Tanniru, October 25, 1999
The WSWS received the following review from a reader of The Heat is On by Ross Gelbspan (Perseus Books, Reading, Massachusetts. First paperback edition, 1998).
Social inequality and the World Wide Web
By Michael Conachy, August 17, 1999
Those who are "on line" know that the Internet is a tool with astonishing potential. With the click of a mouse, anyone anywhere in the globe can access a vast amount of knowledge. For the cost of a lo...
Internet produces conflict between commerce and censorship
By Mike Ingram, August 16, 1999
A 96-page report was issued in June by Human Rights Watch (HRW) entitled The Internet in the Mideast and North Africa: Free Expression and Censorship. The HRW report stated:
White House plan for FBI Internet spying
By Martin McLaughlin, August 10, 1999
A vast new computer monitoring system, controlled by the FBI, would be established under a plan being discussed with the Clinton administration, it was reported last week. According to a draft documen...
The Moon landings in historical perspective
By Martin McLaughlin, July 20, 1999
Thirty years ago--at 4:17 p.m., American Eastern Daylight Time, July 20, 1969--Neil Armstrong and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin became the first men to land on the Moon. The astronauts of Apollo XI were followe...
New techniques to boost the Internet's capacities
By Luciano Fernandez, July 16, 1999
The rapidly increasing demands being placed on international communications networks are fueling some remarkable technical developments in the field of fibre optics.
Huge pollution cloud discovered over Indian Ocean
By Perla Astudillo, June 30, 1999
A recent scientific investigation has identified a huge cloud of atmospheric pollution covering some 10 million square kilometres of the Indian Ocean—an area approximately the size of the United...
A postmodernist attack on science
The End of Science, Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age by John Horgan, Little Brown and Company, 1996
By Chris Talbot, May 18, 1999
John Horgan is a science journalist who writes for Scientific American. His book was originally published in 1996, updated in 1997 and recently brought out as a paperback. It is a collection of interv...
